Representação social de ministros religiosos cristãos sobre a doença mental

AUTOR(ES)

Maria Aparecida Gussi

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The present study aimed to identify the conceptions that religious Christian ministers have about mental illness, as revealed by their personal experiences in attending such individuals and/or their family, anchored in the Theory of Social Representations. The choice of religious Christian ministers was because, in the exercise of their function as religious minister, they carry and disseminate a form of thinking that exercises great influence in adjacent social groups. Additionally, it is often observed in psychiatric practice that a significant number of patients and their relatives turn to religion for answers or solutions for their suffering; this process translates itself in attitudes that are pertinent both to psychiatric care as well as to religion. Interviews were carried out with 19 religious ministers from the catholic, evangelical and spiritist denominations. The content of the interviews was submitted to the software ALCESTE resulting in two thematic axes. The first axis establishes the conception of mental illness as an illness of the soul and it was divided into two classes: in the relations between the spirit world and the material world, an open door for mental illness; and mental illness versus demon possession - two paradoxical speeches. The second thematic axis sustains that the organization of ministerial practice is based on the belief in the good and the evil, and it was divided in three classes: the concession of authority to face the demon; good and evil as faces of the same coin; and that in the dreams and desires lies the shortcut for the ministerial option. The product of this study provides clues which help to structure a systematic knowledge that can be used as one more working tool in interventions carried out in situations of psychic suffering.

ASSUNTO(S)

saúde mental mental illness religião mental health ciencias da saude representações sociais religion doença mental psiquiatria social representations psychiatry

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